Lead AI Data Scientist — Practice Transformation & Delivery

Lawfront; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Lawfront is transforming the delivery of legal services with an AI-enabled platform. We seek an experienced Lead AI Data Scientist to drive production-ready AI initiatives across the UK, partnering with legal and business teams to create measurable value at scale.

You will lead the end-to-end deployment of AI solutions, from concept to production, delivering productivity gains, quality improvements, and commercial impact across the group.

Qualifications

• Experienced Data Scientist with strong track record delivering AI in production.
• Hands-on with LLMs, prompt engineering and RAG.
• Proficient in Python and SQL.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (Azure/Databricks/Snowflake).

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to embed AI and automation within legal workflows.
• Build, test and evaluate LLM-powered solutions for production use.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects and stakeholders to deploy solutions.
• Define success metrics and measure real-world AI impact.
• Develop dashboards and reporting of operational and commercial benefits.
• Monitor deployed AI solutions and iteratively improve performance.

Skills

LLMs

Prompt engineering

RAG

Python

SQL

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Lawfront is transforming the delivery of legal services with an AI-enabled platform. We seek an experienced Lead AI Data Scientist to drive production-ready AI initiatives across the UK, partnering with legal and business teams to create measurable value at scale.

You will lead the end-to-end deployment of AI solutions, from concept to production, delivering productivity gains, quality improvements, and commercial impact across the group.